U.S. Supreme Court Turns Away Challenge To Trump's Tariffs On Steel Imports
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to U.S. steel import tariffs imposed in 2018 under former President Donald Trump - a policy he touted as defending American national security - and largely maintained by President Joe Biden.
The justices turned away an appeal by a group of U.S.-based steel importers of a lower court's ruling rejecting their challenge to the Trump administration's imposition of tariffs under a Cold War-era trade law.
At issue in the case was whether the findings in a 2018 report to Trump that recommended he impose steel tariffs were subject to second-guessing by courts under federal administrative law.
The report by then-Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross determined that excessive steel imports were threatening U.S. national security, with the imports causing domestic steel plants to close and undermining the U.S. "ability to meet national security production requirements in a national emergency." In March 2018, Trump ordered a 25% tariff on steel imports from most nations. He also ordered a 10% tariff on aluminum imports.
